PORTABLE CIRCULAR SAW HAVING SAWDUST DISCHARGE ARRANGEMENT

摘要

A portable circular saw device having sawdust discharge arrangement which prevents sawducts from being discharged toward an operator. The circular saw has an upper blade guard which has one side wall and an opposite side wall, and a discharge opening is formed at the one side wall for discharging, through the discharge opening the sawdusts laterally away from the operator. For further ensuring this lateral discharge of the sawdusts, a deflector is provided at the one side wall at a position close to an upstream edge of the discharge opening. The deflector protrudes from an inner surface of the one side wall toward the opposite wall for directing the sawducts passing along the inner surface of the one side wall toward an end portion on which the sawducts are reflected and are then directed to a direction perpendicular to the moving locus of the sawdusts.